ZDNet Australia reports that In less than a month, Facebook has attracted more than 40,000 developers who have already created around 1,500 applications for the social networking platform. At the Facebook Developer Meetup in New York last week, the mood was summed up by a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written “I NEED AN APP” in thick black marker on his name tag.

It feels like online socialising is turning into a sort of hopOnOff economy where people swarm new communities and as soon as they get crowded, they hop on to the next.I was a member in Six Degrees in 97’…and now 10 years after I’m still out there Community Hopping. Nothing has changed, everything is new.